Question:
Mozilla Firefox not opening?
Nathan L
2009-11-07 23:13:56 UTC
My friends computer is not allowing mozilla firefox to open.
This has happened for the past week.
We have tried reinstalling, scanning for viruses, and checking the firewall.

If anyone have any specific answers? That may help us
Three answers:
tintu
2009-11-08 02:34:48 UTC
open in safe mode >disable everything and restart browser>update it >install faster fox addon>and add some speed tweaks hope it helps..



Here's what you do:

In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox.



Note that these are what I’ve found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests we’re going to open up with pipelining… lol… you’d better have a big connection.



Double Click on the following settins and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - they’ll change when you double click.



Code:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true

network.http.max-connections – 48

network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4

network.http.pipelining – true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100

network.http.proxy.pipelining – true

network.http.request.timeout – 300





One more thing… Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a NEW -> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Since you’re broadband - it shouldn’t have to wait.



Now you should notice you’re loading pages MUCH faster now!
Harley Drive
2009-11-08 10:20:46 UTC
give up on firefox it has too many problems in the latest editions try orca, k-meleon or flock all mozilla browsers like firefox but faster and without the problems, firefox help and mozillazine both deny there are any problems but there are hundreds of reported problems with firefox all over the internet. check your task manager firefox sometimes opens multiple times and freezes the computer something mozillazine "experts" say is impossible
2009-11-07 23:18:28 UTC
try right clicking it and choose run as administrator.


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